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For Your Home

What's New? (#1507)

Gets some tips from the professional on how to design and start a new garden. [26 minutes]

This episode has not aired in the past few months on Iowa Public Television.

Series Description: FOR YOUR HOME is a half-hour home and garden program hosted by do-it-yourself expert Vicki Payne and daughter Sloan Payne-Rutter. FYH features step-by-step instructions for home enhancing projects that bring out one's individual style and personality. Because of its breadth of topics -- covering creative concepts in home decorating, remodeling and gardening -- this magazine-formatted program is the perfect complement to (or replacement for) other more niche-targeted programs. Its mission is to give viewers a whole range of practical, easy-to-understand, and do-able information "For Your Home."

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Want to learn what's new in container gardening? Mike Bush, Dir. Of DSBG, joins Vicki with unusual new plants and containers for your outdoor garden. Jayne Persico will show Sloan how to dress-up ordinary wine glasses with wire and beads. FYH correspondents Susan Voigt-Reising has an update on what's new in sewing this season and Kaye Evans will show you how to care for and display newspaper clippings. [26 minutes]

Petty table settings are easy when you have the correct linens. Sloan and Susan Beck will show you how to make your own party table linens. Sloan has a great kid's crafting project and Kay Evans will show you how to save wedding photos and memorabilia. Want a secret garden without re-landscaping? Vicki and Sloan show you how to transform your garden with an easy to assemble garden trellis. [26 minutes]

Does your outdoor patio need a new look? Meg Lucursi and Vicki will show you how to redecorate with a great garden motif. Sloan and Sara Meyer will share a new ribbon embroidery technique and Vicki will show you how to be prepared for any household fit-it project. Kaye Evans will help you ask the right questions to get the important answers when you visit the frame shop. [26 minutes]

First time gardeners stay tuned. Carolina Gardener, Maureen Riley shows us what to plant and where to plant it for color all summer long. Craft designer Sandi Genovese has some colorful paper party decorating ideas and Jane Schenck will show us how to recycle miss matched bathroom accessories with easy to make fabric covers. Looking for a designer look? Kaye Evans says why not use more than one metal frame. [26 minutes]

Nothing dresses a room like beautiful custom pillowcases. Vicki is joined by Sara Meyer to show you how simple it can be to create your own. Jewelry artist, Jayne Persico has some fun and easy to make wire garden art and candle holders and Larry Chilton will give us tips on how to buy and invest in quality furniture. Kaye Evans will show us how to match our pocket book with our taste when framing art. [26 minutes]

Up-date a tired corner lot with a do-it-yourself garden wall and learn how to care for indoor artwork. Meg Lucursi shares easy decorative glass techniques and Jayne Schenck shows us how to make fun picnic table linens the night before the party. [26 minutes]

Don't forget to water! This week Vicki is joined by Ray Moors to install an in ground irrigation system. FYH correspondents Susan Voigt-Reising has all the latest trends in home dcor fabrics and trims and Kaye Evans will up date us on what's hot this season in framing. [26 minutes]

Can't get your kids to eat their vegetables? That's okay because floral designer, Julie Mc-Cann-Mulligan needs them to create beautiful flower vases and decorative accents. Elizabeth Steverson will show you how to use stencils to create a lap desk or decorate an entire room and Pat Linton has tips on how to grow a "white garden". FYH correspondent Kaye Evans will show you how to turn kid's art into a framed masterpiece. [26 minutes]

Vacation home get away! This show is the first in a 10 part series that focuses on the renovation of a 200-year-old log cabin into a family vacation home. Don't miss this interesting series. Vicki and Sloan will show you how the cabin was dismantled and moved to its mountain top location. You'll learn how to chink a log cabin and much more. Susan Beck has a colorful decorating project and Kaye Evans will show you how to turn your family's vacation souvenirs into decorative wall hangings. [26 minutes]

Need more space? How about a simple to build addition. Fran Giknis and Dave Tyson will show you how easy it is with a little help from your friends. Vicki will share tips on growing and caring for irises and Jayne Schenck has a great no-sew window curtain project. FYH coorpondent Kaye Evans will show you how to decorate your walls on a budget. [26 minutes]

Donna Dewberry is our special guest today. She will teach us the easy one- stroke decorative painting technique that has made her today's hottest painting instructor. Susan Beck will show us how to update our fireplace mantels with decorative covers and we'll learn how to decorate using photographs. Get out your hammers it's time to put the roof on our mountain cabin addition. [26 minutes]

It's never too early to plan for Christmas. Susan Beck is back with a fun to make wall-hanging quilt. We'll learn how to preserve our art work and Vicki will show you how to do a little glasswork around the house. FYH correspondent Larry Elmore has some great tips on how to build friendships through do-it-yourself projects. [26 minutes]

Just in time for the cooler nights. Vicki and Sloan are busy putting the final touches on a stone fireplace for the cabin. Special guest, decorative painter Priscilla Hauser will share her techniques for painting on glass and we'll learn how to do heirloom-sewing techniques plus, Kaye has tips for saving and preserving needleart and textiles. [26 minutes]